If you have a bit of time this weekend, muse on these powerful wisdom statements:

"Feeling Your Desire: Feel it by appreciating and allowing
instead of wanting and yearning. Now, when we use the word "want"
most of you, just the word "want" puts you in instant yearning.
Most often, when we are talking to a group of people about what
they want, they're talking about what they don't have yet. In
other words, wanting identifies what is wanted, but what else
does it identify? Where you stand relative to it. So every time
you say, "I want something" you have an immediate awareness of
where you stand relative to it. So if the "where I am" is
dominant in the wanting, then the wanting is yearnful. If the
appreciation is dominant, then there's no lack. So most of you
who want are vibrating in a way you can't get it because your
awareness is, "I don't have it, I've never had it, I don't know
anybody who's got it. The odds are that I won't get it." You see
what we're getting at?" - Abraham-Hicks

and

"The abundance flows in many more avenues than dollars. And so,
if you could focus upon the gifts that the Universe gives you:
When you say "abundance", think about it in the abundance of
health, the abundance of vitality, the abundance of clarity, the
abundance of enthusiasm, the abundance of delicious people in
your life, the abundance of loving letters in your life. The
abundance of free-flowing traffic in your life. The abundance of
wonderful experiences in your life...As you start thinking in
terms of this abundance that doesn't have anything to do with
dollars -- the abundance relative to the dollars starts flowing
too." - Abraham-Hicks

Some people have expressed sadness over the fact that the butterfly is unable to fly.

I, myself, was very troubled at first.

Remember, I did not ask for this situation - but I am choosing to open fully to the experience.

There is perfection in the Universe beyond what we think we see.

I did ask for an reading from an gifted animal intuitive to better understand the circumstances - and this is what I received:

Dear Elyse,

The delicate treasure you have been gifted with is a shift in consciousness. Not all transformations require flight.

Not all changes come in 'pretty packages'. The Butterfly Maiden has gifted you with one of her sisters to show you the delicate beauty of appreciating transformation in action, in stillness, in tranquility, in delicate balance of beauty. Your butterfly sister is accepting of what is, as well as allowing herself to 'be'. Her action steps are internal, quiet, and about allowing... allowing your help, allowing her process... allowing nature, in her bountiful abundance, to cater to her every need. "

"a contented spirit soars without wings"... "Watch her and learn to soar in spirit. Follow her internal flight pattern. Watch her morph into oblivion... again and again. See yourself in her mirror. See the diamond sparkle of her wings, her antennae, her delicate center of balance. See who YOU are."

- and, "p.s. just enjoy the hell out of it because she's a lot of fun and is really enjoying the princess treatment!!! "

mary & kirin (You will be able to connect to ask your own questions of Mary and Kirin in July the new "pet wing" of the virtual spa at: http://www.SerenityPathways.com)

So In short, my feeling is, "Who am I to know what 'should' have happened to this butterfly"?

If I argue with the way things have unfolded, I am not being an "allower."

As I am able to feed her and she seems to be doing fine (she actually prefers to be on my hand then to be in the terrarium my son built for her) then I will look for the gifts here.

A few years ago I began a tradition of giving gifts on my birthday. This practice makes perfect sense to me.

When a birthday rolls around, many of us stop to take stock of the year that has just passed. When I pause to take a fuller measure of the gifts that have been provided to me throughout the year, I am filled with a sense of gratitude and awe that threatens to spill over.

This might seem like a paradox -- when we feel the most full we are most wanting to share -- but the corollary is also true -- when we feel the greatest desire to share we are also most magnetic to more good coming back to us. In fact this truth (also known as the "Law of Giving and Receiving" or the "Law of the Circle") is a central tenet of the "Prosperity from the Inside-Out" philosophy.